4:10 Jesus answered 3 her, “If you had known 4 the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water 5 to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 6
1 tn The words “this happened” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to complete an ellipsis.
2 sn A quotation from Ps 35:19 and Ps 69:4. As a technical term law (νόμος, nomos) is usually restricted to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the OT), but here it must have a broader reference, since the quotation is from Ps 35:19 or Ps 69:4. The latter is the more likely source for the quoted words, since it is cited elsewhere in John’s Gospel (2:17 and 19:29, in both instances in contexts associated with Jesus’ suffering and death).
3 tn Grk “answered and said to her.”
4 tn Or “if you knew.”
5 tn The phrase “some water” is supplied as the understood direct object of the infinitive πεῖν (pein).
6 tn This is a second class conditional sentence in Greek.